Favoriting Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky: Playlist from April 3, 2024 Favoriting

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Twangs of all stripes and stuff that ends in -billy.

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Favoriting April 3, 2024: Goin' To Town

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Artist Track Album Label Format Approx. start time
Betty Amos with Judy & Jean  Eighteen Wheels A' Rollin   Favoriting   Starday  7"  0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hal Howard  I Traded My Heart (For A Heartache)   Favoriting   WeeReBel  7"  0:06:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hank Williams  Baby, We're Really In Love   Favoriting   MGM  7"  0:08:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Willis Brothers  Goin' To Town   Favoriting   Starday  7"  0:11:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
York Brothers  Don't Leave Me With the Yum Yum Blues   Favoriting   King  7"  0:13:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Joe Maphis 
Durango   Favoriting
The New Sounds Of Joe Maphis 
 
 
0:15:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Donna Kaye  Unwanted   Favoriting   HBS  7"  0:18:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ferlin Husky  You Pushed Me Too Far   Favoriting   Capitol  7"  0:23:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Onie Wheeler  Dancing   Favoriting   Starday  7"  0:24:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Red Johnson  Railroaded   Favoriting   HEP  7"  0:25:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Peewee King  Slow Poke   Favoriting   Landa Records  7"  0:27:31 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Joe Maphis 
Buckaroo   Favoriting
The New Sounds Of Joe Maphis 
 
 
0:30:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Hill with Mort Garson's Orch. and Chorus  Wild Child   Favoriting   RCA Victor Records  7"  0:33:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mickey Hawks with Moon Mullins & His Night Raiders  Bip Bop Boom   Favoriting   Profile  7"  0:35:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Billy Hancock with the Tennessee Rockets  The Boogie Disease   Favoriting   Ripsaw  7"  0:37:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dale Jay / the Storms  Shaken All Over   Favoriting   Raven  7"  0:40:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Edie Lenore  Johnny Be Good   Favoriting   JEM Records  7"  0:42:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Joe Maphis 
Spanish Dobro   Favoriting
The New Sounds Of Joe Maphis 
 
 
0:45:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Pointer Sisters  Fairytale   Favoriting       0:48:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Beyonce  Dolly P   Favoriting       0:54:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Beyonce  Jolene   Favoriting       0:54:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Billy La Sane  Black Folks Love Country Music Too   Favoriting   Chelsea  7"  0:57:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
ultradamno:

Becky! Tonkies!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Handy Haversack:

Becky! Tonkers!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
DanFA:

Howdy Ms. Becky. Just strolling through the old west on my trusty steed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
loveless:

Howdy all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Hiya Becky, folks!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Oh howdy! ๐Ÿค 
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Handy Haversack:

Stuff talkin', eh?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Deano de los Muertos:

๐Ÿช•๐Ÿช•๐Ÿช•๐Ÿช•๐Ÿช•
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
DanFA:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:04
Becky has thoughts about the "backlash" to the Beyonce Cowboy Carter album.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Handy Haversack:

Becky, also, I was down at the station today stuffin' swag, and I left you a present in a WFMU envelope in the "B" mailbox on the third floor.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
DanFA:

www.billboard.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Becky:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:05
Handy!!! Thanks, I'll go see! You're the Easter bunny!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ DanFA @8:05
Since I get most of my news from these boards, I have not been exposed to such.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Becky @8:06
The Easter Bunny has never been so incendiary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
ultradamno:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:07
Well, if the sun hits him mastodon.social...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
DanFA:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:06
Just that baclash from conservative country music fans that she doesn't have the right to make a country album.
  8:09pm
Chris Crisco:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:05
How much to I have to pledge to get a Handy Haversack?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Destroit:

Hi everyone. I believe everyone has the right to make a goddamn country album. There. Debate over haha
  👻 8:10pm
Voof:

If you're living and breathing you have the right to make a country album. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Becky:

↳ Destroit @8:10
100%!!! You got it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
ultradamno:

It's the music of the people...so if you're one of those.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @8:08
weird they care. Iโ€™ve never been a fan of her music outside of a song or two to notice
  8:11pm
Chris Crisco:

↳ Becky @8:10
Is it any good?
  8:13pm
tonyb:

Becky: do you ever enter your theme song on your playlist? Iโ€™d sure like to favorite โญ๏ธ it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Becky:

↳ Chris Crisco @8:11
I think it's way better than most mainstream country out there. And she's Dolly endorsed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
ultradamno:

But still, Hold 'Em? Isn't that over (please)? Write about Euchre, not enough songs about that.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Destroit:

Crisco is on to something. Make sacks, loosely shaped as hands, with HANDY on the side in Curlz font. With a little haversack written on the bottomโ€ฆlike an autograph. Put handles on it perhapsโ€ฆmake it a functional tote bagโ€ฆbut then not so sacky
Avatar 8:13pm
Joey!:

Becky, my Dad played this on a jukebox for me when i was a kid in brooklyn!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Goin' To Town" by "The Willis Brothers"
Is that a young Willie Nelson I hear?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Handy Haversack:

I have to believe Beyonce did not go into this unaware of the racist, reactionary squawking corps that populates the American discourse industry.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Destroit @8:13
As long as it doesn't cause Scott any agita for SWAG-packing purposes!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Last I checked, our national slogan was "This is a free country."
  👻 8:16pm
Voof:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @8:11
Beyonce is one of the most famous people in the entire world. I think people are taking this as an opportunity to have attention on themselves for a minute by simply talking about her. Kinda sad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Ciggy:

Hey I'm just an old chunk of coal
  8:16pm
Chris Crisco:

↳ Becky @8:13
Got any queued up? Last time I heard Beyonce was Destinys Child when my daughter was a teenager
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Voof @8:16
Maybe we're doing wonders for FMU's SEO with this discussion!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
ultradamno:

No, not the same people acting offended that 'Biden declared Easter to be trans awareness day' (on the same day it usually is) being opportunistic?
  8:19pm
gauche knee:

Iโ€™m a Cookin and a Tonkin, been a minute since tuning in live ! Love it here โญ๏ธ
  👻 8:19pm
Voof:

Lol
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Handy Haversack:

K8 would like to hear it, Becky. I think I have already heard a few tracks.

But this is my backbone philosophy of listening to a freeform DJ: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. I never make requests. I'm just grateful for what you play.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Voof @8:16
True, but I wouldnโ€™t have known she had made a country album if I wasnโ€™t listening tonight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Becky, I'm in for "Cowboy Carter". Bring it. I haven't listened to it.
  8:20pm
Piper From Toronto:

i hear enough of the beyoncรฉ record on the rest of the radio but i do want to hear your THOUGHTS tho
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Destroit:

Iโ€™m cool with a Bey track. Have yet to hear one
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Handy Haversack:

Four plays so far on the station: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
ultradamno:

Wait until she wins the c/w grammy, that's when it's going to get ugly
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Handy Haversack:

Oh, right, I heard "Jolene" on Mona's show! Dolly endorsed! And now Beyonce and Lingua Ignota have covered the same track, which seems worth noting!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
DanFA:

I'd be up for Cowboy Carter.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Destroit:

Poor Becky has soooo much to cram into just one teeny hourโ€ฆbey track will take up 6.5% of her show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
G:

↳ Song: "Unwanted" by "Donna Kaye"
This guyโ€™s old porch overhang is probably also about to fall in and kill his two yeller dawgs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
JB:

No Beyoncie-Tonkโ„ข for me, thanky you very much
  8:24pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "You Pushed Me Too Far" by "Ferlin Husky"
What do you think was under the floorboard of the car?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
G:

↳ JB @8:23
Cultural reappropriation is legitimate, creative, and fertile, after all!
  8:25pm
Countrydave:

Hearing plenty of new to me music. Thanks Becky!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Handy Haversack @8:21
And 137 total plays on WFMU, which is pretty damn respectable!

wfmu.org...
  8:28pm
gauche knee:

Iyw to play Beyoncรฉ , itโ€™s your show, interested in your thoughts.
  8:28pm
gauche knee:

I havenโ€™t heard it but LOVE that Linda Martell is getting the attention she deserves. ๐Ÿ’
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Becky:

↳ gauche knee @8:28
The fact that Linda Martell is on the album is enough of an endorsement in itself.
  👻 8:29pm
Voof:

↳ Song: "Slow Poke" by "Peewee King"
Huh, I never heard this Peewee King version. Neat!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Destroit:

↳ Voof @8:29
Agreeโ€ฆthis is neat!
  8:31pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "Buckaroo" by "Joe Maphis"
Aw, too bad...I liked it overcranked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
JB:

↳ G @8:25
Lol, but I guess if Ween can do it, why not her. King Gizzard next up??
  8:33pm
Listener Robert:

Gee, back in the 1980s WFMU DJs made a point of playing half the records at the wrong speed or backwards.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
ultradamno:

They had line dancing...which is kind of glorified bunny hop
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
G:

↳ JB @8:32
Well, down here in New Orleans we say Beyoncรฉ is from Houston, why not country?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
DanFA:

↳ Song: "Wild Child" by "David Hill with Mort Garson's Orc...
This is a hot record.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @8:34
...saying like the bunny hop isn't a thoroughly glorious sight to behold twitter.com...
  8:40pm
Mike H:

Really enjoying the program!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Johnny Be Good" by "Edie Lenore"
OK, I know I'll be wrong, but ... is this popcorn?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
DanFA:

Becky, Dale Watson is coming to my town this summer. Would you recommend not missing him?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Becky:

↳ DanFA @8:43
You should check it out. He's a great performer. I have reasons for not replaying his performance on my show though.
  Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Enflod:

has there ever been a country-surf song?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
DanFA:

↳ Becky @8:45
Oh boy.
  Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Enflod:

↳ Enflod @8:45
Actually Glen Campbell *was* a Beach Boy for a while....
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Destroit:

↳ Enflod @8:45
I would have to think there has been. Plenty of symbiosis imo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
ultradamno:

Link Wray always seemed to concrete bound to be called surf, but The Swag comes close
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
JB:

↳ G @8:35
Big Korean population in Houston, I believe. Maybe K Pop Beyonce?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Handy Haversack:

Hell yeah, Pointer Sisters! So good!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Deano de los Muertos:

As someone that now lives in central jersey..I donโ€™t appreciate the stank you put on that! ๐Ÿ˜† jk
  8:49pm
Piper From Toronto:

๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค˜
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
ultradamno:

The mom of the hero of a lot (all?) of B's detractors was an immigrant too (not to mention his current wife) en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
JB:

@Becky we love FMU because you play what you like. And I grew up in central nj, same town as a certain FMU DJ that Testifies on an alternate stream...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Becky:

I'm grateful that the country music community let me in knowing literally zero about it all but loving everything I heard and collected. Twenty years later (!) the Honky Tonk Radio Girl program is the longest running one-DJ'd country music program in the tristate area!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
DanFA:

↳ Becky @8:52
Hell yes!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Becky @8:52
Amen!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Chris Hiatt:

Great show tonite. Thanks, Becky!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Becky @8:52
Huzzah! ๐Ÿ†
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
JB:

↳ Becky @8:52
WORD!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Jolene" by "Beyonce"
Cool with this!
Avatar 8:55pm
Therese:

Tell it, B!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
JB:

*Opening my mind and trying...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Therese @8:55
Yeah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Tommy in Neversink:

great show
  8:57pm
P-90:

Iโ€™ll allow it. Definitely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
radioronan:

Thanks Becky..cheers y'all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
ultradamno:

By the way, since I brought up visibility day countryqueer.com...
  8:58pm
Listener Robert:

Isn't Jolene a brand of hair dressing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
McGroovey:

↳ Song: "Jolene" by "Beyonce"
I like it!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
DanFA:

Great show again, Becky.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Becky! Honky Tonk Radio Girl still the best!
  8:59pm
kirk pearson:

meta country music hour!!
  8:59pm
kirk pearson:

thanks becky
  8:59pm
gauche knee:

Love your story & that last set ,Becky! I grew up on Country & Christian music as 1st gen Indian American ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Brooklyn kid so I understand that. A fun thing is how I get tested to see if Iโ€™m a real country fan, whereas my white husband is assumed to be the know it all meanwhile all he knows Dolly, Willie, Kenny & Hank. ๐Ÿ˜
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Excellent show, Becky! Thanks!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Deano de los Muertos:

time to hit the ole dusty trail. Thanks Becky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
JB:

↳ Song: "Jolene" by "Beyonce"
Great show, glad I got to listen. Nah, oh well, needs more steel guitar, not for me but glad you played her
  9:00pm
gauche knee:

Fantastic show, Becky! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿพ
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Destroit:

Ty becky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
JB:

↳ gauche knee @8:59
Namaste!
  9:01pm
Blatherard:

So the Carter Family just got bigger -- nothing wrong with that. Let the Cowboy in.
Avatar 9:02pm
Joey!:

Good for you Becky!!
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